Sandy Kendell @SandyKendell@qoto.org
Believer | K-12 EdTech Specialist | Doctoral Student | #edutooter #edtech #education #K12 #informationliteracy #infolit
Joined Nov 2022
If you are #NewToMastodon as part of #TwitterMigration #Twexit, be cautious about wishing Mastadon would work just like your previous service did. Give yourself time to learn the new tool. Differences can be a good thing! And why would you want a re-creation of the thing you just left anyway?
@mguhlin @suziwalks As for @DianMo, if I were her I'd delete my account and restart elsewhere. Smallish number of followers and following not worth staying on a server where it looks like highly inappropriate posts are happening.
@mguhlin @suziwalks @DianMo Qoto hasn't blocked other servers, but has silenced some. See explanation at bottom of this page: https://qoto.org/about/more
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I pet Jersey. She loves being outside. Each year, she and her caregiver take a trip alone to hike in the mountains of CO. When Jersey is happy, her whole body wiggles. When she plays, she tears her toys apart. Only her stuffed pizza slice is whole. She sleeps with it each night.
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Haha ex-Twitter employees have created their own Mastodon instance 😅
"This server is intended for current and previous twitter employees and their friends/family. We filter signups to try keep the server focused for community reasons." - https://macaw.social/about/more
Welcome to the Fediverse! :)
@petrrpeasey @suziwalks @mguhlin Makes sense but also easy to screenshot or link to another Toot. Unfortunately rudeness will find a way...
@suziwalks @mguhlin server/instance
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I'm having a bit of a detox. It's been a minute since I was in a digital space with strangers that lacked vitriol. For others making the transition from the bird site, it might be jarring at first with how calm things are over here. #MastodonMigration #Twexit
@mguhlin @suziwalks Well, I don't think quote tooting is evil in and of itself. I like sharing what someone else said and adding my $0.02. 😜 We do have it on qoto. See the quote marks as an option in the attached screenshot.
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It appears I am going to be made a Senior Member of the IEEE (the highest level one can achieve)... Cool!
@freemo Congratulations!
@suziwalks Just using an iOS app #Metatext for the first time and noticing I can’t see re-toots on it. This is good to know that re-toots won’t always show up for folks. #Mastodon
@suziwalks Were you able to find the link? I know not all #Mastodon instances support quoting Toots like the one I'm on does. Wondering if that affects how others see my re-toot.
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@mcneely 'the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing'
I try to be careful about the conclusions I drew from that sort of thought. I was talking to someone who teaches computer science at uni and they were saying they've needed to start teaching 1st year students about directory structures because that's not really part of how 'the youths' are interacting with software anymore. It's all searching and curated experiences on smart devices that hide that sort of detail away.
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To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.
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@suziwalks Do you see the post from @mguhlin in my Toot? It has the link to the article from @clive in it.
Good article to share with friends you want to introduce to #Mastodon!
Come Join Me On Mastodon, Folks A how-to guide for joining the rapidly-growing social network https://clivethompson.medium.com/come-join-me-on-mast...
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@plugusin @SandyKendell Well thank you both for leading me down a TED talk wormhole and burning up 19+ minutes of my evening watching the fantastic Sir Ken Robinson in his 9-year-old presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX78iKhInsc
This man is such an innovative thinker for education (the first TED of his I saw was called "Do schools kill creativity" and is equally thought-provoking) yet none of his revolutionary reforms ever seems to have hit the light of day -- very saddening.
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Hi everyone ! I am excited to join and learn with this community ! I am interested in education reform, connecting with education innovators and leaders interested in transforming current edu policy. Please let me know wnk else I should be connecting with on this platform! @edutooters #EduTooter @mguhlin
Believer | K-12 EdTech Specialist | Doctoral Student | #edutooter #edtech #education #K12 #informationliteracy #infolit
Joined Nov 2022
